Vento, Lombardy (and Piedmont) challenge the “National Plan for the improvement of air quality” to the Constitutional Court, is a clash with the government

In a nutshell, the government had changed a little while ago, the plan for improving the quality of the air, making the expenditure charges fall on the regions and without any transfer of funds.

Lombardy, Veneto and Piedmont are therefore clashing with the government to modify this thing or give more funds for its realization.

The plan of the national executive "identifies the central, regional and local administrations to which the implementation of each measure is entrusted" for the containment of air pollution. To be indigestible to the Governors of the North is precisely this approach or, better, the way in which the responsibilities relating to the implementation of the interventions were declined and divided. The plan foresees, in fact, that Regions have responsibility for measures for improving air quality "ordinary"while this responsibility is only due to the state "complementary". The latter can intervene and take on the burden of the initiative if the plans adopted by the Regions do not prove to be effective.

A setting – here is the second reason for the discontent of the Governors of the North – not accompanied by an increase in resources available to regional administrations. From here, wrongly or reason, the reason for the appeal: the Government – this is the sentiment of the presidents of the Padano basin – Download the burden of improving air quality on the regions without however supporting them properly from the point of view of the transfers of the funds. It was not enough, he can point out that The environment, to date, is still a matter that falls among those with a state prerogative.

As perhaps it will remember, a sentence of the European Court of Justice had been issued against our country as early as 2020, once the overrun of the values-theimitis has been ascertained. Sentence that Italy, according to the Community institutions, would not have observed, from here The new infringement procedure open in 2024.